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Work completed ahead of the new school year by veteran and aspiring anthropologists at Luther College in Decorah could help locate now-forgotten burial sites and survey archaeological finds before putting shovel to dirt.

Luther College anthropology professor Colin Betts, joined by three student researchers, spent the summer visiting historical cemeteries, laying out grids and slowly moving through them with special equipment, to identify possible unmarked graves buried long ago.

The group surveyed three cemeteries in Winneshiek County, each with unique aspects that students had to take into account. Each cemetery also yielded different data for the researchers to analyze, and served as import

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